Water-cooling kit – continued
As part of the package from Thermaltake, the Armor LCS ships with a single length of tubing which you cut according to your needs.
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As well as this, two bottles of non-diluting coolant are included, just pour it in and that’s it. Only one of the bottles is needed to fill the system, the second is provided for topping it up, recommended at 6 monthly intervals.
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The kit also features a one-piece pump and reservoir, fully labelled up with the appropriate flow paths and powered off a single molex connector.
The pump is supposed to be mounted in the floor of the chassis, and whilst only the pump is actually secured to the chassis, it is done so without any padding, unlike the reservoir.
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The water-block for the CPU features a poly-resin cap and polished copper block. The lapping on the block itself is good, with a nice polished surface straight out of the box.
The routing of the water flow has been done to maximise the surface area inside the block, with a zigzag flowpath easily seen through the poly-resin top.
To finish off the water-block, Thermaltake has fitted a single blue LED that's powered off the CPU fan header. Whilst the blue LED is supposed to remain on steadily, we found the sample's flashed like it was having a fit, but, we feel, this was more down to the Intel mainboard trying to control the voltage of the ‘fan’ than anything else.
